(*undergraduate)
*Dankert, A.M., Hernandez, A.R., Wise, T.B., *Dayaw, K.I., *Dayaw, J.N., *Layden, R.M., Lubke, K.N., Burke, S.N., Templer, V.L. (2025) The Impact of Long-term Social Housing on Biconditional Association Task Performance and Neuron Ensembles in the Anterior Cingulate Cortex and CA3, Aging, 17 (9), 2312-2334
Wise, T. B., Templer, V.L., Burwell, R.D., (2025) The 3D Vertical Maze: A new model system for studying the interactions between social and spatial cognition, Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 418
Wise, T.B., Heimer-McGinn, V. *Dankert, A.M., *Alessandro, C., Martin, D.E., Burwell, R.D., Templer, V.L. (2025) A matter of complexity? The role of the dorsal posterior parietal cortex in processing changes in spatial information across time, Behavioral Neuroscience, 139(2) 91-104
Heimer-McGinn, V., Halter, E., Wise, T.B., Templer, V.L. (2024), Attentional processing in the rat dorsal posterior parietal cortex Neurobiology of Learning & Memory, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2024.108004
Wise, T.B., Templer, V.L. & Burwell, R.D., (2024) Information transfer from spatial to social distance in rats: implications for the role of the posterior parietal cortex in spatial-social integration BioRxiv: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39463928/
Wise, T. B., Templer, V.L., Burwell, R.D., (2024) A novel behavioral apparatus for spontaneous exploration and operant conditioning of social information under spatial conditions in rats BioRxiv: doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.10.02.616150
Gazes, R.P., Templer, V.L., Lazareva, O. F. (2022), Thinking about order: a review of common processing of magnitude and learned orders in animals, Animal Cognition, DOI: 10.1007/s10071-022-01713-6
Gazes, R.P., Templer, V.L. Rogers, K.C., Mickelberg, J.L., Stoinski, T.S. (2022) Information seeking in western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla), Learning & Behavior
Templer, V.L., Metacognition (2022), in Primate Cognitive Studies, Beran, M., Schwartz, B., 314-340, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK
Wise, T.B., Barack, D.L., Templer, V.L. (2022). Geometrical representation of serial order in working memory, Learning & Behavior, DOI: DOI 10.3758/s13420-022-00541-5
Wise, T. B., Burwell, R. D., Templer, V.L. (2021). Social preference in rats not impacted by posterior parietal activity despite overall changes in familiarity-based social behavior bioRxiv: 2021.2011.2024.469924
Basile, B.M., Templer, V.L., Gazes, R.P., Hampton, R.R. (2020), Preserved visual memory and relational cognition performance in monkeys with selective hippocampal lesions, Science Advances, 6(29), DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaz0484
Heimer-McGinn, V., Wise, T.B., *Hemmer, B. M., *Dayaw, J.N., & Templer, V.L. (2020) Social housing enhances acquisition of task set independently of environmental enrichment: A longitudinal study in the Barnes maze. Learning & Behavior, DOI: 10.3758/s13420-020-00418-5
Templer, V.L. (2019) Ten years of metacognition research in rats: 2009-2019, Animal Behavior and Cognition, 6(4), 273-277, DOI:10.26451/abc.06.04.07.2019
*Hemmer, B. M., Parrish, A. E., Wise, T. B., *Davis, M., *Branham, M., Martin, D. E., & Templer, V. L. (2019). Social vs. nonsocial housing differentially affects perseverative behavior in rats (Ratus norvegicus). Animal Behavior and Cognition, 6(3), 168-178. DOI: 10.26451/abc.06.03.02.2019
Templer, V.L., Gazes, R. P., Hampton, R.R. (2019) Memory for ordinal position in rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta), Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72(9). DOI: 10.1177/1747021819838432
Templer, V.L., Wise, T.B., Heimer-McGinn, V., (2019) Social housing decreases working memory errors but not reference memory errors in aged rats, Neurobiology of Aging, 65: 117-125. DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2018.11.016
Brown, E.K., Basile, B., Templer, V.L., Hampton, R.R. (2019) Dissociation of memory signals for metamemory in rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta), Animal Cognition, 22(3), 331-341. DOI: 10.1007/s10071-019-01246-5
Templer, V.L., Brown, E.K., Hampton, R.R. (2018) Rhesus monkeys metacognitively monitor memories of the order of events, Scientific Reports, 8:11541, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-30001-y
Templer, V.L., Wise, T., *Dayaw, K., *Dayaw, J.N. (2018) Nonsocially housed rats (Ratus norvegicus) seek social interactions and social novelty more than socially housed counterparts. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 132(3), 240-252. DOI: 10.1037/com0000112
*Lee, K.A., Wise, T.B., *Preston, A.J., Templer, V.L. (2018) Testing for metacognitive responding using an odor-based delayed match-to-sample test in rats. Journal of Visualized Experiments, (136), e57489, doi:10.3791/57489
Templer, V.L., (2018) Tools of engagement: information-seeking in chimpanzees, Learning & Behavior, 1-2. DOI: 10.3758/s13420-018-0342-1
Templer, V.L., * Lee. K.A., & *Preston, A.J. (2017) Rats know when they remember: transfer of metacognitive responding across odor-based delayed match-to-sample tests. Animal Cognition, DOI:10.1007/s10071-017-1109-3
Burwell, R.D., Templer, V.L. (2017) Jamais vu all over again. Nature Neuroscience, 20(9), 1194-1196
Brown E.K., Templer, V.L., & Hampton, R.R.(2017). An assessment of domain-general metacognitive responding in rhesus monkeys. Behavioural Processes, 135, 132-144. DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2016.12.004
Templer, V.L. (2016) Episodic Memory. In Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science, Springer International Publishing, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_3129-1
Diamond, R.F.L., Stoinski, T.S., Mickelberg, J.L., Basile, B.M., Gazes, R.P., Templer, V.L. and Hampton, R.R. (2015) Similar stimulus features control visual classification in orangutans and rhesus monkeys. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, doi: 10.1002/jeab.176
Basile, B.M., *Schroeder, G.R., Brown, E.K., Templer, V.L., Hampton, R.R., (2015) Evaluation of seven hypotheses for metamemory performance in rhesus monkeys. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xge0000031
Templer, V.L., Hampton, R.R. (2013) Episodic memory in nonhumans. Current Biology, 23 (17). doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.07.016
Templer, V.L., Hampton, R.R. (2013) Mechanisms for order in rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta), Hippocampus, 23:193-201. doi: 10.1002/hipo.22082
Templer, V.L., Hampton, R.R. (2012) Rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) show robust evidence for memory awareness across multiple generalization tests. Animal Cognition, 15 (3): 409-419. doi: 10.1007/S10071-011-0468-4
Selected Oral Presentations:
Templer, V.L. Cognitive effect of sociality: a longitudinal aging study, Rhode Island IDeA symposium for Biomedical Excellence, Brown Medical School, Providence, RI. (June, 2019)
Templer, V.L. Cognitive effects of sociality: a longitudinal aging study, Psychology Department Colloquium Series, Connecticut College, New London, CT. (April, 2019)
Templer, V.L., Wise, T.B., Heimer-McGinn, V. Cognitive effects of social housing: dissociating acquisition of task-set and spatial memory 26th Annual International Conference on Comparative Cognition (CO3), Melbourne, FL. (April, 2019)
Wise, T.B., Heimer-McGinn, V., Templer, V.L. Effects of social housing on cognitive decline due to aging: reference and working memory, Symposium on meaning of memory systems in comparative cognition, 26th Annual International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL. (April, 2019)
Templer, V.L., Does social housing protect against cognitive decline due to aging?, International Conference on Learning and Memory, Huntington beach, California (April, 2018)
Selected Poster Presentations:
(*undergraduate)
Wise, T.B., Templer, V.L., Burwell, R.D. A matter of complexity? The role of the rodent posterior parietal cortex in processing spatial layouts. Society for Neuroscience, Global Connectome. (January, 2021)
*Dankert, A.M., *Dayaw, K.I., *Dayaw, J.N., Truckenbrod, L.M., Hernandez, A.R., Ash, M., Lubke, K.N., Burke, S.N., Templer, V.L., The Impact of Long-term Social Housing on Biconditional Association Task Performance and Neuron Ensembles in the Anterior Cingulate Cortex and the Hippocampal CA3 Subregion, Society for Neuroscience, Global Connectome. (January, 2021)
Wise, T., Templer, V.L., Burwell, R.D. Potential impairments in rats’ social cognition following manipulations to the posterior parietal cortex, International Behavioral Neuroscience Society, Cairns, AU. (June, 2019)
Wise, T., *Dayaw, K.I., *Dayaw, J.N., Templer, V.L. Neurotoxic lesions to rats’ posterior parietal cortex lead to social recognition deficits, 26th Annual International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL. (April, 2019)
*Dankert, A., *Vera, R., Wise, T.B., Templer, V.L. The role of the posterior parietal cortex in memory for temporal order, 26th Annual International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL. (April, 2019)
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